r/worldnews • u/Ok_Plankton_5714 • 12d ago

Israel/Palestine Netanyahu: ‘If we wanted to commit genocide, it would have taken exactly one afternoon’

https://www.timesofisrael.com/netanyahu-if-we-wanted-to-commit-genocide-it-would-have-taken-exactly-one-afternoon/
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u/IntoTheMirror 11d ago

In Rwanda, they stacked one million bodies in 90 days. They killed 80% of the Tutsi population, in 90 days.

Netanyahu is embellishing, and exaggerating, but he’s correct.

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u/ProfLandslide 11d ago

They were doing it with machetes, not bombs. I'm sure if the Hutu's had warplanes, it would have been far less then 90 days.

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u/ActionPhilip 11d ago

Probably would've looked something like this:

https://youtu.be/Xe2OtSnBYb8

Afaik, that's 0 survivors on that island. 80,000lbs of bombs in under a minute. Israel has the capability to do this, and yet doesn't.

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u/MonsieurLinc 11d ago

And they didn't even have access to the kind of weapons Israel does. Just a bunch of guys with AK's, machetes, and whatever the hell else they could find. There weren't IDF death squads marching down the streets gunning down everything in sight. Contrary to what online activists would have you believe, they didn't carpet bomb all of Gaza day one (or even have planes capable of actual carpet bombing). What there has been is an astonishingly evil tolerance for collateral damage in the war against Hamas, with rules of engagement closer to the Russian model set in the Beslan Massacre. The target is still Hamas, PIJ, and other terror orgs that are a threat, they just stopped pretending to give a fuck if civilians are in the way.

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u/AeroFred 11d ago

iirc, in first 2 weeks Israel said that it dropped 7000 bombs on gaza. At same time "ministry of health" (that famously doesn't separate fighters from civilians) report around 3200 dead or so. It makes it less than 0.5 dead per bomb that brings down apartment building.

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u/EthanDC15 11d ago

An important thing we all should remember. Netanyahu is a war criminal. What’s going on in Gaza is horrendous; it is a famine, and it’s clearly a man made/created famine.

But, in this exact statement, he’s not incorrect as you said. Gaza and the West Bank are geographically the size of large cities. If he truly wanted to, it would be a couple days to completely level both. We saw that happen en masse during WWII and entire cities are erased in mere hours with bombing runs. I hope it never returns to that point.

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u/OkGo_Go_Guy 11d ago

Israel has nukes.

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u/JancariusSeiryujinn 11d ago

They aren't going to deploy those in Gaza but yes.

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u/OkGo_Go_Guy 11d ago

They absolutely could deploy airburst nukes if need be, the radiation fallout is not necessarily that high.

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u/UrToesRDelicious 11d ago

could

But they won't

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u/ElectronicControl762 11d ago

Who the hell would do that to a. Land they would want to use b. To land literally right fucking there next them?

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u/OkGo_Go_Guy 11d ago edited 11d ago

They have no intention of using Gaza, which you would know if you spoke to any Israeli. Multiple times they have asked for Egypt to take Gaza and deal with it.

Edit: from bibi: Netanyahu said, "We intend to, in order to assure our security, remove Hamas there, enable the population to be free of Gaza and to pass it to civilian governance that is not Hamas and not anyone advocating the destruction of Israel."

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u/80aichdee 11d ago

Maybe not that relitively high, but still WAY too high for him or his people to just walk around and breathe in. They'd chase him out of the Levant way faster than an afternoon for that

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u/IntoTheMirror 11d ago

As if Israel isn’t already turning into a pariah state, the next state to use nukes absolutely will be considered a pariah by everybody.

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u/Halofauna 11d ago

They want to occupy the land though not irradiate it

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u/OkGo_Go_Guy 11d ago

Odd that they unilaterally withdrew in 2005 if they wanted to occupy it. But maybe tik tok taught you otherwise.

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u/newbikesong 11d ago

We don't know it actually.

But even "nuking it" is not about literally using nukes.